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re: TIL Al Capone suffered from health issues due to complications from untreated Syphilis

Posted on 4/16/20 at 9:41 pm to
Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
Member since Jul 2007
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Posted on 4/16/20 at 9:41 pm to
Posted by wahoocs
Lafayette, LA
Member since Nov 2004
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Posted on 4/16/20 at 9:51 pm to
That has me literally LOL
Posted by kciDAtaE
Member since Apr 2017
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Posted on 4/16/20 at 9:51 pm to
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Well there was this guy named Benedict Arnold... You may also have heard of John Wilkes Booth


No. If you would have said Charles Manson, I could entertain that. But the two you named is not in the conversation. Guarantee you more people under 40 (as you say) are familiar with Capone than Arnold or Booth
Posted by MDB
Baton Rouge
Member since Nov 2019
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Posted on 4/16/20 at 9:55 pm to
These made me laugh.

As a retired editor and life-long cynic, I rather enjoyed numbers 9 and 10. Rather clever.
Posted by tiger114
Fairhope, AL
Member since Sep 2009
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Posted on 4/16/20 at 9:57 pm to
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TIL Al Capone suffered from health issues due to complications from untreated Syphilis

I thought that it was impossible NOT to know this.
Posted by BayouCatFan
Member since Jul 2008
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Posted on 4/16/20 at 10:33 pm to
You have to be a real moron to not know Capone had syphilis.
Posted by Iron Lion
Sipsey
Member since Nov 2014
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Posted on 4/16/20 at 10:39 pm to
When Capone was in Eastern State Prison he swore that his cell was haunted. He said he would constantly hear voices like the walls were talking to him.
Posted by dbeck
Member since Nov 2014
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Posted on 4/16/20 at 11:12 pm to
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TIL Al Capone suffered from health issues due to complications from untreated Syphilis

The only people who don't know this are the ones in the early stages of syphilitic insanity.
Posted by BillF
Monroe, LA
Member since Jan 2006
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Posted on 4/17/20 at 2:21 am to
I once represented a guy who had taken a hammer and bludgeoned his family to death on Thanksgiving. He had been convicted, and I just represented him on appeal of the death sentence. Not trying to get him released, just to commute the death sentence.

When it came time for hearings the state gave him his drugs so he appeared lucid. Otherwise, he was off his drugs and he didn't understand that if they executed him today he would still be dead tomorrow. One day he thought he was Hitler. I could visit him two days later and he honestly thought he was Jesus.

He planned to choke me to death one day until a guard intervened. He escaped one day at a hearing and was shot to death by police before he got out of the building. I wasn't heartbroken.
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